Fascial Release for Structural Balance: Arches & Legs

¥ 5300

May 30 – June 1, 2017

Beijing, China

This course is intended for Manual Therapists.

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Fascial Release for Structural Balance Series: Arches & Legs

The Fascial Release for Structural Balance (FRSB) is a set of intensive soft-tissue technique courses – based on the book of the same name – divided into functional regions. Combining movement and manual techniques for the most efficient and long-lasting results, and using the latest research on the interaction between skeleton, muscles, joints, and fascial proprioceptors, this series of workshops will take you to a new level in therapy.

Designed with the busy therapist in mind, each FRSB event gives you a new understanding of the relevant area. The content will outline how the structural and functional anatomy relates to many common issues as well as to the rest of the body. Based on many new and established approaches the Fascial Release for Structural Balance will give you the skills in palpation, BodyReading and functional analysis needed for the modern multidisciplinary therapist.

Although it is recommended that you have attended the Anatomy Trains workshop, it is not required. Familiarity with the books, Anatomy Trains and Fascial Release for Structural Balance are recommended.

Arches and the Legs – Underpinning all of our structure is the foot’s interaction with the ground, imbalances here clearly have consequences further up the body. Effective arch balance can be essential for easy and graceful walking, pelvic stability, low back efficiency and even head and neck support. The feet and legs are literally the foundation for the rest of our structure and this workshop will analyze the bones of the feet and how they conspire to help or hinder the arches. We will look at the forces coming from the leg muscles and create strategies to help maintain better mechanics by dealing with myofascial restrictions and imbalances.

The Knee and Thigh – A complicated hinge in the middle of two long levers is perhaps not the best of designs – but this “elbow designed by committee” is an excellent work of engineering. The knee joint mediates forces coming down from the hip and up from the foot and still allows a wide range of movement in all but the frontal plane.

Objectives

How to differentiate your analysis of the foot and legs from the rest of the mechanical chain, giving an accurate reading of their skeletal relationships

How to assess and then provide good foot and leg support through the three (or four) arches of the foot

How the arches act in walking and standing and their relationship to the pelvis and the AT lines

How to balance the support the arches receive from the long muscles of the calf

Effective strategies to unwind rotational compensations in the foot, the tibia-fibula complex and the knee.

Learn how the structures of the knee and thigh co-operate to achieve this and learn to recognize some of the structural dysfunctions that can occur.

BodyRead the various imbalances which can occur

Learn to balance the common rotational movements of the knee

The FRSB workshops are most easily absorbed in the order outlined below but you can do them in any order as time permits.

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Anatomy Trains International

Anatomy Trains is the mapping of whole body fascial and myofascial linkages developed by Thomas Myers. Providing continuing education and certification for movement and manual therapy professionals worldwide.